Los Angeles County law enforcement officers shot and killed five people in four days over the long holiday weekend.
The shootings brought the number of people killed by police in the county to 22 since the start of 2015, according to public records.
Authorities said one man killed by police in West Covina was carrying a knife. A 29-year-old man in Lakewood tried to run down deputies with a car, according to authorities. Another man pulled a gun on a deputy in Lancaster, officials said.
One man, identified by his wife as Johnny Ray Anderson, 43, was unarmed.